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Electrocatalysis of fuel cell reactions: Investigation of alternate electrolytes
Oxygen reduction and transport properties of the electrolyte in the phosphoric acid fuel cell are studied. The areas covered were: (1) development of a theoretical expression for the rotating ring disk electrode technique; (2) determination of the intermediate reaction rate constants for oxygen reduction on platinum in phosphoric acid electrolyte; (3) determination of oxygen reduction mechanism in trifluoreomethanesulfonic acid (TFMSA) which was considered as an alternate electrolyte for the acid fuel cells; and (4) the measurement of transport properties of the phosphoric acid electrolyte at high concentrations and temperatures
Electrocatalysis of fuel cell reactions: Investigation of alternate electrolytes
Oxygen reduction and transport properties of the electrolyte in the phosphoric acid fuel cell are studied. A theoretical expression for the rotating ring-disk electrode technique; the intermediate reaction rate constants for oxygen reduction on platinum in phosphoric acid electrolyte; oxygen reduction mechanism in trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (TFMSA), considered as an alternate electrolyte for the acid fuel cells; and transport properties of the phosphoric acid electrolyte at high concentrations and temperatures are covered
Exotic-Hadron Signature by Constituent-Counting Rule in Perturbative QCD
We explain a method to find internal quark configurations of exotic hadron
candidates by using the constituent counting rule. The counting rule was
theoretically predicted in perturbative QCD for hard exclusive hadron
reactions, and it has been tested in experiments for stable hadrons including
compound systems of hadrons such as the deuteron, H, and He. It
indicates that the cross section scales as , where
is the center-of-mass energy squared and is the total number of
constituents. We apply this method for finding internal configurations of
exotic hadron candidates, especially . There is a possibility
that could be five-quark state or a molecule, and
scaling properties should be different between the ordinary three-quark state
or five-quark one. We predict such a difference in , and it could be experimentally tested, for example, at J-PARC. On the
other hand, there are already measurements for as well as the ground in photoproduction reactions. Analyzing
such data, we found an interesting indication that looks like
a five-quark state at medium energies and a three-quark one at high energies.
However, accurate higher-energy measurements are necessary for drawing a solid
conclusion, and it should be done at JLab by using the updated 12 GeV electron
beam. Furthermore, we discuss studies of exotic hadron candidates, such as and , in electron-positron annihilation by using generalized
distribution amplitudes and the counting rule. These studies should be possible
as a KEKB experiment.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX, 10 eps files, to be published in JPS Conf. Proc.,
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and
the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU2016), July 25-30, 2016, Kyoto, Japa
The NLO QCD Corrections to Meson Production in Decays
The decay width of to meson is evaluated at the next-to-leading
order(NLO) accuracy in strong interaction. Numerical calculation shows that the
NLO correction to this process is remarkable. The quantum
chromodynamics(QCD)renormalization scale dependence of the results is obviously
depressed, and hence the uncertainties lying in the leading order calculation
are reduced.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures; references added; expressions and typos ammende
Collisions of antiprotons with hydrogen molecular ions
Time-dependent close-coupling calculations of the ionization and excitation
cross section for antiproton collisions with molecular hydrogen ions are
performed in an impact-energy range from 0.5 keV to 10 MeV. The
Born-Oppenheimer and Franck-Condon approximations as well as the impact
parameter method are applied in order to describe the target molecule and the
collision process. It is shown that three perpendicular orientations of the
molecular axis with respect to the trajectory are sufficient to accurately
reproduce the ionization cross section calculated by [Sakimoto, Phys. Rev. A
71, 062704 (2005)] reducing the numerical effort drastically. The
independent-event model is employed to approximate the cross section for double
ionization and H+ production in antiproton collisions with H2.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 4 table
Microwave emission from snow and glacier ice
The microwave brightness temperature for snow fields was studied assuming that the snow cover consists of closely packed scattering spheres which do not interact coherently. The Mie scattering theory was used to compute the volume scattering albedo. It is shown that in the wavelength range from 0.8 to 2.8 cm, most of the micro-radiation emanates from a layer 10 meters or less in thickness. It is concluded that it is possible to determine snow accumulation rates as well as near-surface temperature
A statistical technique for determining rainfall over land employing Nimbus-6 ESMR measurements
An empirical method was employed to delineate synoptic scale rainfall over land utilizing Nimbus-6 ESMR measurements
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